Our Favorite May Weeknight Dinner Recipes (2024)

This salad is simple enough for a weeknight but worthy of planning a get-together around, thanks to its star ingredient—ribeye steak. You’ll grill it (and red onions), then combine it with cherry tomatoes, blue cheese, basil, and a drizzle of tangy balsamic dressing, turning it into the kind of impressive-but-secretly-easy dish you’ll be making all the time.

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Creamy, crumbly, herby Boursin cheese is the star of this easy riff on baked ziti. Many white baked ziti recipes call for swapping out the marinara for béchamel sauce, but a mixture of Boursin, ricotta, and heavy cream is much simpler—and super delicious.

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This recipe turns our favorite into an easy yet elegant dinner in the form of a flatbread pizza that’s simple enough for a weeknight dinner but impressive enough to serve to guests.

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Oven-roasted salmon is already delicious on its own, but adding a filling made of briny feta cheese, earthy cooked spinach, and savory-sweet cherry tomatoes will take your favorite fish up a few notches. To finish it off, the salmon gets topped with a mix of scallions, crushed red pepper, and yep—extra cheese. Mmm.

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To keep the flavors clean, our version is baked and not fried. We broil the poblanos until they're blackened for an extra-smoky vibe, then fill them with a cheesy rice mixture that's honestly so delicious, it can be eaten on its own. Once baked to perfection, top it all off with tangy sour cream, fresh salsa, and cilantro—now that's a good stuffed pepper, upgraded.

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This bruschetta-inspired grilled chicken is one of our favorite ways to celebrate fresh summer flavors. Make it for dinner this May, then again and again all season long.

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Everything you need for dinner is inside these easy foil packs, including super tender chicken, pineapple and veggies, plus a tangy BBQ sauce. Simply bring the edges of the foil together in the middle and crimp so that no steam can escape (the key to ultra juicy chicken). Once the chicken is cooked through, just serve straight from the packet or slide each serving onto a plates.

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That’s right, the Windy City, celebrated for creating colossal deep-dish pizza, has a lesser known thin crust pizza subculture. The sauce and cheese go right up to the edges of the dough, so the perimeter gets nice and crispy.

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Garlic butter is here to save your weeknight dinner with this one-pan salmon & asparagus meal that's ready in as little as 30 minutes! Change up your veggies, and you can make this over and over again this May.

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Though we’ve done it many different ways here (hi hello chicken nugget Parm casserole), this classic recipe has everything you want in chicken Parm, full stop—fried cutlets shrieking with crispiness, a perfect blend of mozzarella and Parm, and a sauce that is full of life with basil and just enough sweetness.

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Sometimes simple is the most satisfying, so we've kept this shrimp recipe unadulterated with pasta. Don't worry about missing the carbs—we top our shrimp with garlicky, lemony breadcrumbs that add a savory crunch to each bite. You're also welcome to add some spaghetti, if you like!

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Love a Big Mac? Us too! So much so that we're not consigning their delicious flavor to just burgers. These hot dogs are everything you love about them (mm, Mac sauce), with a twist!

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Here, a creamy, rich pasta sauce with fresh lemon and tangy feta, and juicy chicken thighs all come together in one pot for a very simple but satisfying meal. It’s the even easier version of everyone’s favorite baked feta pasta, perfect for a busy May.

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These patties are spiced with smoked paprika and loaded with crunchy, bright coleslaw (this crunch truly makes all the difference). We promise these burgers rival even the best hamburgers, making them perfect for Memorial Day or any weeknight this May.

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If salads were people, this Copycat Quesadilla Explosion Salad would be a real party animal. Surrounded by wedges of quesadilla and bursting with fajita chicken, cheese, corn and black bean salsa, and tortilla strips, this Chili’s copycat is basically a fiesta on your plate.

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In this simple skillet supper, gnocchi and chicken thighs are is cooked in a creamy sauce sun-dried tomatoes. After the chicken and gnocchi are out of the oven, the chicken gets a quick rest and some grated Parm and a box of baby spinach get stirred in with the gnocchi. The hit of green looks great and also makes this a true one-pot meal, no side dish required!

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Here, a springy mix of asparagus, fresh mozz, and sun-dried tomatoes wake up this weekday workhorse in a recipe that’s quick enough for any Tuesday night this May, but special enough for a weekend dinner party all spring and summer long too.

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When our spring weeknight dinners start to feel a little snoozy, we activate our go-to formula for supper success: Start with a dish you love, then add something new. Here, the dish we love is chicken piccata, the Italian-American classic, and the new ingredient is one of our favorite pantry items, boxed gnocchi.

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Smothered in sweet honey-mustard sauce, these chicken breasts are grilled to perfection, staying super-tender and juicy by cooking inside foil packets. If you're looking for the easiest weeknight dinner ready in under an hour, this veggie-packed chicken dish is the crowd-pleaser your family will love this May.

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Based on the traditional lasagna alla Bolognese, we grabbed what we loved most about the timeless, classic recipe and simplified it to make it weeknight-friendly. This lasagna can be eaten for any occasion—family Sunday dinner, lunch with friends over a pitcher of sangria, or cold straight from the fridge after a night out (it makes great leftovers).

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